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No. 390,777. Patented 001;. 9, 1888.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,777, dated October 9, 1888. Application filed Dccemberl3.1887. Serial No. 957,805. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULIUS A. HAAG, of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Signs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters refer to like parts.

My invention relates to the construction of illuminated signs for druggists and other merchants, and will be understood from the fol lowing description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of my device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the center of the same.

The sign is composed of a hollow frame or box, f, made in any suitable shape, and is intended'to contain lights within for illuminating the same, and to be attached to the front of a building; but I lay no stress whatever upon the shape of the frame or the arrangement of the lights in the case. The side of this frame is cut out to leave an opening which conforms in general outline and shape to the figure which is intended to be used upon the design, and this opening is to be filled with a figure made of glass or other transparent or i translucent material, and of such size as to close up the opening made in the side of the 1 frame, and to be secured therein by any con-' venient means-such as a strip, cement, or other well-known devices.

In the drawings, the figure outlined is made of glass and represents upon the outside a druggists bottle composed of an upper part, 1, and a lower part, 2, the upper one apparently forming the stopper for the lower.

grepresents the entire glass figure thus com= posed of the parts 1 and 2. This figure has the outline of the bottle preferably only upon the side which is displayed, and which projects through the frame of the sign. Its inner side is partly fiat and partly concave, as shown in Fig. 2. The concave parts, as shown in Fig. 2, represent on the opposite side the convex or body portion of the bottles. These parts formed in this way practically operate as bullseyes or lenses, so that when a light is placed behind them it is magnified and thrown out to a great distance, and the color of the glass will determine, of course, the color of thelight which is thus thrown out. This glass piece 9 may be formed in one, two, or more pieces, the parts being united by laps or in any other desired manner, and strips Z may be used at the top and bottom for holding the glass body in place in the opening of the sign. The advan tages of this construction are quite obvious. The large show-bottle ordinarily used by druggists and placed in a window, containing colored liquids and illuminated bylights behind, is expensive, bulky to handle, and liable to be broken, and when placed behind a window the frost upon the the light ordinarily transmitted through it.

My invention dispenses with the use of large bottles,and only requires that the figure should be outlined, as shown, in glass, the opposite side being made partly fiat and partly concave to conform to the requirements of the figure and the case. The bulging parts may be made of greater or less thickness, as desired, and the sign thus made will perform all the oflices of the illuminated bottles without any of the risk or danger and little of the expense attending the same. The sign thus made is light, portable, easily set up, and easily removed, and if one of the glass figures be broken it may be i replaced with a small expense.

If desired, the figure [1 may be made with its outline the same on both sides; but this is a question of cost of construction or convenience l only.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. Asign composed of acase or frame-work, f, having openings formed therein representing any suitable design, such openings closed other similar material, and projecting beyond such frame, the profile of such pieces also representing the required design, all combined substantially as shown and described.

2. A sign composed of aframe having openings cut therein representing a suitable design, its outline parallel with the front of the case, such openings closed bya corresponding figure of glass or other similar material, the configuration of its profile also being that of the required design, substantially as shown and described.

pane will effectually hide 6 by one or more pieces, 9, formed of glass or 0 3. The casef, having openings cut in one or In witness whereof I have hereunto set my more of its sides, such openings closed by the hand this 6th day of December, 1887. pieces 9, formed of a single piece of glass or similar material, its profile conforming to the JULIUS A. HAAG. 5 shape of the required design and projecting beyond the face of the frame, the two secured \Vitnesses: in position with means for uniting the same, 0. 1?. JACOBS, substantially as shown and described. I E. B. GRIFFITH. 

